Piper PA28 accident near Siler City, NC
On June 14, 2024, a Piper PA28 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Siler City, NC. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- June 14, 2024
- Place
- Siler City, NC
- Aircraft
- Piper PA28 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 35.697°N, 79.501°W
- NTSB ID
- 20240614194471
Official records · ERA24FA261
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn June 14, 2024, at 1248 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28-140 airplane, N515DH, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Siler City, North Carolina. The flight instructor and student pilot were fatally injured. The airplane was operated by Executive Flight Training and Services LLC as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. Another flight instructor for the same operator was flying a second airplane in the traffic pattern at Siler City Municipal Airport (SCR) at the time of the accident. Both the flight instructor and his student provided written statements, and their versions of events were consistent throughout. The accident airplane entered the downwind leg of the traffic pattern for runway 22 as the flight instructor and his student climbed on the upwind leg after performing a touch-and-go landing. The flight instructor in the second airplane said he adjusted his subsequent traffic pattern for “spacing” and that his airplane was about midfield on the downwind leg when he watched the accident airplane in a touch-and-go landing. The flight instructor in the second airplane stated that, as his airplane approached the left base leg of the traffic pattern, the accident flight crew asked for his airplane’s position over the common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF) and then requested, “Can you extend, we’re having an issue?” The student pilot’s recollection of the transmission was, “We are having issues, can we land?” Both the flight instructor and the student pilot said there were no further transmissions from t
Probable cause
The flight instructor’s failure to maintain airplane control during a low-speed, low-altitude left turn after encountering an undetermined issue during takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall at an altitude too low for recovery.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
